From Stuck to Successful: 3 Steps to Conquer Procrastination and Build Momentum (6/21/25)

It can become your biggest regret.

You finally start that thing you have procrastinated on (sometimes for years) and you ask yourself why you didn't start sooner.

• Maybe it was a new business model.
• Maybe it was a new relationship.
• Maybe it was a productivity hack that you finally got around to applying to your business.
• Maybe it was a new investment strategy.
• Maybe it was weekly visits with your aging parents.

Sahil Bloom sums it up this way: "The days are long, but the years are fast."

Life is short and we only have this one life to live.

Yet studies show that the average person procrastinates three years on the big decisions that would have moved the needle.

It is that thing you have been thinking about, but finding excuses not to start. The challenge is that procrastination steals your time.

95% of people in their golden years are dependent on the government or someone else to provide for their needs—simply because they never started that thing they had planned to start.

• Investing.
• Saving for the future.
• Starting that business.
• Repairing their relationship with their children.

The pain is indescribable and very real.

The good news is that you still have time.

Here are three strategies to help you step out of procrastination and start achieving your biggest goals:

1. Think bigger. Execute smaller.

Many of the failures in the lives of people who are stuck come from an inability to look beyond today. It is a real epidemic in our society.

To break free from this epidemic in your life and business, take time on a weekly basis to quiet your mind and step out of the busyness around you.

• Take a walk.
• Workout.
• Sit on your patio.
• Grab a cup of coffee or tea from a local shop.

I recently coached a woman we’ll call Sara. It was halfway through the year and she had not yet filed her taxes, hired that new person in her business, or even thought about her business succession plan.

During the time we worked together, not only did she file her taxes and work towards hiring that new person, but she also raised her net income by 20%.

This came simply by making the space to think and creating a plan to execute on.

2. Focus all your attention fully on one goal at a time.

This is one of the most challenging shifts in a person's life because it requires you to say no to ALL the shiny objects and focus on the one thing that moves the needle right now.

• Do you want a new investment strategy? NO.
• Did you see what the President is doing on tariffs? NO.
• Do you want to get together so I can pick your brain? NO.
• Would you like to check out this strategy to make one million dollars? It worked for me. NO.
• Would you like to buy this program that will transform your life? The answer is NO.

Focus like your life depends on it, because it does.

You are not yet too late, but the window is closing.

Pick that one thing and triple down.

3. Recognize the patterns in your life and find the single points of failure.

This is a lifelong process to begin to recognize just one failure point.

For me, the failure point was my morning routine. It was inconsistent at best, and not present at worst.

• I would check email…instead of writing and creating.
• I would answer my phone…instead of strategizing on my business.
• I would check the news…instead of spending a few minutes with gratitude for the day.

Each of these was a personal failure point and as I corrected each of these systematically, my entire business changed.

Procrastination will hold you back from achieving your biggest goals.

Winning takes work.